Peter Flynn

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Email with the word Consortium truncated by the margin so it says "Report on the TEI Consort"
Window into a restaurant kitchen from outside with the street sign "Place du Chef" on the wall.
What newspaper to read in England The Times is read by the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by the people who own the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think the country ought to be run like it used to be. The Daily Express is read by the people who think it still is. The Guardian is read by the people who think they ought to run the country. The Morning Star is read by the people who think the country ought to be run by another country. The Star, Sun, and Mirror are read by people who don't care who runs the country, so long as they have big tits.
Fertile valley of crops with mediaeval castle on a far promontory, and the rays of the setting sun over the hill opposite.
Young long-haired white guy with an Innsbruck University t-shurt
Ireland COVID date w/e 25 July 2026 Cases last week: 39 Rate per 1,000: 0.76 Cases since week 40: 4,841 Hospitalisations last week: 15 No admissions to ICU No deaths
Guillotine with blade raised
Photo of a bowl of bottom ends of ice-cream cones filled with chocolate
Chopping-board with red onions, red chilis, and garlic ready to prep
A plate of very large pitted green olives with a bird's-eye chili in each.
WhatsApp dialogue. [Picture of cooked prawns on a dish.] > OMG where are you? >> We got lunch in Baltimore > Name? >> The prawns' names? I didn't ask! >> It was in La Jolie Brise
Email from Neil Numb [sic] of the Irish Chili Festival
Email from the AA saying that my message to them, sent from their web site in April, was deleted in June without being read.
Front cover of Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book
Shop-front of a business in Lyon called Godot & Fils
Screenshot of temperatures in Lyon up to 39°C in the next few days
Photo of a hand holding a thumb-sized violin, the other hand playing it.
Car display showing external temperature as 41°C (106°F)
French weather warning of severe high temperatures, especially danger for the elderly and people suffering from "chronicle diseases"
Hubble's "smiling lens" overlaid with the "Don't Panic" smiley from H2G2
Drawing of a raised guillotine
Jar of home-made jam labelled Loganberry Jam 2025
Glass of Pimm's on a table, garden background
"Temperatures in Ireland could reach 29 degrees on Tuesday as Met Éireann issues warning on sun exposure" as per the Irish Times, with picture of six surfers carrying their boards across the sand dunes.
Payment log says "ROBS TAXI"
Hotel carton of water for tea/coffee labelled "89% Plant Based Water" (The small print clarifies that it's actually the carton that's 89% recyclable)
Google Translate showing Spanish "carta" as English "letter" — correctly except that it also means "menu" among other meanings like "map"
Signpost in front of a pub, pointing to TOWN / BEACH / BAR
Guillotine raised for action
Pepys' Diary, Friday 18 March 1663/64 Up betimes, and walked to my brother’s, where a great while putting things in order against anon; then to Madam Turner’s and eat a breakfast there, and so to Wotton, my shoemaker, and there got a pair of shoes blacked on the soles against anon for me; so to my brother’s and to church, and with the grave-maker chose a place for my brother to lie in, just under my mother’s pew. But to see how a man’s tombes are at the mercy of such a fellow, that for sixpence he would, (as his owne words were,) “I will justle them together but I will make room for him;” speaking of the fulness of the middle isle, where he was to lie; and that he would, for my father’s sake, do my brother that is dead all the civility he can; which was to disturb other corps that are not quite rotten, to make room for him; and methought his manner of speaking it was very remarkable; as of a thing that now was in his power to do a man a courtesy or not.
Private Eye front cover cartoon by Gerald Scarfe, April 1965, showing LBJ having his trousers pulled down by Harold Wilson licking his lips. Title is "VIETNAM: WILSON RIGHT BEHIND JOHNSON" and LBJ's speech bubble says "I've heard of a Special Relationship but this is ridiculous".
Packs of Glenstal salted traditional Irish butter on a wooden pat with brown bread in the background
Cat surveying the damage of broken white china across the tile floor (not actually her fault TBH)
Alphabet font sampler of James Kilfiger’s font Pierce (upright and oblique only, no monospace)
AAHOA Congratulates President-Elect Trump ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 6, 2024 — AAHOA, the world’s largest hotel owners association representing nearly 20,000 hoteliers, congratulates President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President- elect JD Vance on their victory in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. "On behalf of America's hotel owners, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance," said AAHOA Chairman Miraj S. Patel. "Our industry has faced tremendous challenges in recent years, and we are encouraged by the incoming administration's commitment to championing pro-business policies that prioritize small business growth, reduce regulatory burdens, and build pathways for economic resilience. We look forward to working with the new administration to implement policies that support workforce development, drive tax relief, and foster a thriving hospitality sector." https://www.aahoa.com/news-details/aahoa-congratulates-president-elect-trump
Karoline Leavitt photographed with a turkey reportedly called Waddle (this may be a mishearing of Wattle, the red fleshy chin of a turkey)
A little Cadbury's filled Easter egg, size and shape of their normal Creme Eggs, foil-wrapped; but this one says it's Biscoff-filled. We shall see. Biscoff is the new name for Speculoos, which the owners thought Americans would find hard to pronounce. They're the little flat gingerbreads you get with a coffee in European cafés, hence Bis(cuit) Cof(fee), conveniently forgetting that Americans call them cookies, not biscuits.
MarineTraffic app record of vessel "Titan Uranus" with photograph of bulk carrier.
The A68 heading north near Chollerton
Car air-vent clip-on holder for bag of chips (US French fries) with recesses for two dips and cup holders.
Boîte ouverte de sardines Irlandaises marque "Shines" à l'huile d'olive et ses toasts aux tomates mi-séchées.
The hatter from The Mad Hatter's Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Bowl of batter being whisked
Asparagus and mushroom risotto served in the pan
Microplastic intake by organisms has increased sixfold since 1990, and plastic production continues to grow. A 2025 University of New Mexico study Campen co-authored revealed that concentrations of microplastics found in human brain tissue have increased by a sharp 50 percent in less than a decade.
Packet of Dunnes Stores Hot-Smoked Salmon, sliced. 100g, €3.89
Three roast pigeons in a serving dish with vegetables
Linked site from wsbtv.com showing error [object Object][object Object][object Object][object Object][object Object][object Object]
A raised guillotine
Picture of the Sharp PC-1500 pocket computer with 8KB of BASIC interpreter and 4–colour pen plotter/printer.
Tiny violin being played in the palm of the hand.
Full moon in a clear sky over rooftops and trees
The Innisfallen making a turning manoeuvre on the Lee, opposite Horgan’s Quay, in 1954. (Source unknown, published at https://www.echolive.ie/nostalgia/arid-41720019.html)
Drawing of a raised guillotine
Whole shelf of miniatures of Writers Tears whiskey
Breakfast table with coffee pot, milk jug, sugar-caster, and toast in a rack.
Graph of Bitcoin value since it started, showing the long flat beginning, the COVID growth and fallback, and rapid rise with peaks and troughs in the last few years, and the fall to about ⅗ of the highest value last year. It's always important to use a y-axis which starts at zero.
Cloudless blue sky over Ireland at 9am on 1st Feb 2026
Page from Morrisons (UK supermarket) for Cosmo's cheese & tomato pizza with haggis topping
Can of Karina brand green olives stuffed with lemon, from Spain.